Improvement in medical compounds for cure of the catarrh



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSHUA A. CARPENTER, OF WAVERLY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS FOR CURE OF THE CATARRH.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,077, dated January 21, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSHUA A. CARPENTER, of the village of Waverly, in the county of Tioga and State of New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Oatarrh Cure and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention has relation to a new medical compound for the cure of catarrh; and it consists in the combination of the followingspecified ingredients, in about the proportions given:

REGIPE.Oi1 of tar, ten drops; gum camphor, one ounce; salt, (chloride of sodium,) one-half ounce; glycerine, four ounces; water, four ounces.

Mix oil of tar and gum-camphor, and dissolve in salt and water. Then add water and glycerine. To be applied by means of a nasal douche, and also used as a gargle in the throat.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The ingredients herein specified, combined substantially in the manner and about the proportions set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSHUA A. CARPENTER.

Witnesses:

J. NEWTON DEXTER, JOHN R. NURREY. 

